The Rise And Rise And Fall Of Lalu Prasad

RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday walked to the Bihar assembly with nine MLAs who were reportedly part of a rebel group that broke away from his party on Monday. Nitish behind party revolt, says Lalu | Poll: Do you think Nitish is behind the split in RJD, as Lalu claims?

The rebellion by a group of RJD legislators on Monday was nothing less than a bolt from the blue for party chief Lalu Prasad, who had lately been on the verge of a big comeback in Bihar following his release from jail.

Bihar grabbed national attention on Monday with key player Lalu Prasad staring at a split in his party and partner Ram Vilas Paswan inching closer to ditching him and the Congress for the BJP.Nitish too 'busy' to know of strife in RJD

The Congress and the RJD inched closer to an understanding in Bihar after Lalu Prasad met Rahul Gandhi today. Lalu is likely to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi shortly to work out the seat-sharing details.

If Nitish Kumar is the best finished product of the social justice movement, Lalu Prasad was, at his prime, its uncut diamond prone to invent his own curse. He lost his mass base to misgovernance, writes Vinod Sharma.

A man of quick wit, native intelligence and keen sense of politics, Prasad is a man who is loved or hated with equal passion. And that makes him a formidable foe – even if he is inside a jail. The mother of a scam | Lalu's journey

He might be prisoner number 3312 in the Birsa Munda Central Jail records, but convicted RJD chief Lalu Prasad is a VIP prisoner and he is getting all the amenities due to such prisoners as laid down by the jail manual. B Vijay Murty and Bedanti Saran report. Birsa jail becomes centre of RJD politics